Chris McCaw

Last updated

Chris McCaw (born 1971) is an American photographer whose work is held in many public collections.

Contents

Life and photography

McCaw was born in Daly City, California, in 1971. He has a BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. [1]

McCaw is known for his large-format homemade cameras [2] in which he uses expired gelatin silver photo paper and long exposures to make solarized paper negatives which often include the burned path of the sun within the frame, in a series named Sunburn. [3] McCaw travels to remote places to capture different apparent movements of the sun, including the Arctic Circle in Alaska, the Galápagos Islands and the Mojave Desert. [4] McCaw's earlier work used a 7×17 inch view camera to create large-format negatives from which he made platinum prints. [5] Projects following Sunburn include work with a modified Cirkut camera, resulting in exposures that can take more than 24 hours. [6] A series titled Poli-optic employs a homemade camera with a grid of lenses. [7] Finally, the series Heliograph includes work in which there are multiple exposures of the sun on the same paper negative. [8]

Sunburn

McCaw's best known project is titled Sunburn. [9] The Metropolitan Museum of Art writes about the series that:

In 2003 McCaw, a photographer based in San Francisco, began taking pictures of the sun. Using large-format cameras that he builds himself, McCaw works outdoors, usually in the desert or by the sea. Instead of film, he places photographic paper in the camera so that each picture he creates is a unique paper negative. His exposures often last four hours or more. McCaw calls these works "Sunburns" because the rays of the sun, magnified by the camera's lens, actually scorch the paper negative, sometimes burning all the way through the paper base. The intensity of the light also causes solarization, reversing the tonal values so that the negative print appears as a positive image. [10]

Publications

Publications by McCaw

Publications with others

Collections

McCaw's work is held in the following permanent collections:

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oscar Gustave Rejlander</span> British photographer (1813–1875)

Oscar Gustave Rejlander was a pioneering Victorian art photographer and an expert in photomontage. His collaboration with Charles Darwin on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals has assured him a position in the history of behavioural science and psychiatry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joel-Peter Witkin</span> American photographer

Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses, often featuring ornately decorated photographic models, including people with dwarfism, transgender and intersex persons, as well as people living with a range of physical features. Witkin is often praised for presenting these figures in poses which celebrate and honor their physiques in an elevated, artistic manner. Witkin's complex tableaux vivants often recall religious episodes or classical paintings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henry Peach Robinson</span> English photographer

Henry Peach Robinson was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing - joining multiple negatives or prints to form a single image; an early example of photomontage. He joined vigorously in contemporary debates in the photographic press and associations about the legitimacy of 'art photography' and in particular the combining of separate images into one.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timothy Greenfield-Sanders</span> American filmmaker and photographer (born 1952)

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders is an American documentary filmmaker and portrait photographer based in New York City. The majority of his work is shot in large format.

Nicholas Nixon is an American photographer, known for his work in portraiture and documentary photography, and for using the 8×10 inch view camera.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">George Eastman Museum</span> Museum in Rochester, New York, U.S.

The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henry Wessel Jr.</span> American photographer and educator (1942–2018)

Henry Wessel was an American photographer and educator. He made "obdurately spare and often wry black-and-white pictures of vernacular scenes in the American West".

Judy Fiskin is an American artist working in photography and video, and a member of the art school faculty at California Institute of the Arts. Her videos have been screened in the Documentary Fortnight series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; her photographs have been shown at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, at The New Museum in New York City, and at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Linda Connor is an American photographer living in San Francisco, California. She is known for her landscape photography.

Luc Delahaye is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a documentary approach which is however countered by dramatic intensity and a narrative structure.

John Divola is an American contemporary visual artist and educator, living in Riverside, California. He works in photography, describing himself as exploring the landscape by looking for the edge between the abstract and the specific. He is a professor in the art department at University of California Riverside.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Penelope Umbrico</span> American artist (born 1957)

Penelope Umbrico is an American artist best known for her work that appropriates images found using search engines and picture sharing websites.

Jim Dow is an American photographer who specializes in photographing places.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Douglas Isaac Busch</span> American architect

Douglas Busch is an American photographer, inventor, teacher, and architectural designer known for using the world's largest portable view cameras and negatives to produce the world's largest photographic contact prints. His photography encompasses an array of subjects, including landscapes, cityscapes, nudes, portraits, and color, and is in the collections of major institutions such as the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Busch's imaginative architectural work and drought-tolerant landscape designs have attracted celebrity clientele and have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Robb Report, Western Interiors and Design, Open House, and Distinctive Homes. His dedication to the principles of healthy design and sustainable building practices led him to launch pH Living: Healthy Housing Systems, with the goal of providing homes for people who suffer from environmental allergies and chemical sensitivities. He also developed a vertical herb and vegetable production system called Farm in a Box.

Michael Flomen is a self-taught Canadian artist who primarily creates photograms, or cameraless photographs in collaboration with nature. Flomen began taking photographs in the late 1960s, and since 1972 his work has been exhibited internationally. Snow, water, firefly light, wind, sand, sediment, shorelines and other natural phenomena make up the elements used to create his photograms.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Learoyd</span> British artist and photographer

Richard Learoyd is a British contemporary artist and photographer.

Farrah Karapetian is an American visual artist. She works primarily in cameraless photography, incorporating multiple mediums in her process including sculpture, theatre, drawing, creative nonfiction, and social practice. She is especially known for her work that "marries two traditions in photography — that of the staged picture and of the image made without a camera." Recurrent concerns include the agency of the individual versus that of authority and the role of the body in determining that agency.

Alison Rossiter is an American photographer. She attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Banff Centre School. In 2007 Rossiter moved from traditional photography to creating photograms from vintage photographic papers. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Canada and the Getty Museum.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Chiara</span> American contemporary artist and photographer

John Chiara is an American contemporary artist and photographer.

Rena Small is an American conceptual artist who works primarily in photography, selective painting and Language Art components. Small is best known for her ongoing series the Artists' Hands Grid Continuum, https://www.artforum.com/picks/rena-small-4581, consisting of mostly black and white photographs, some with selective hand-painted details and 21st Century Color Ink Jet images, of the hands of prominent 20th and early 21st American artists. She began the project in 1984.The project is a life work and will end when Small's life does too. "Artists' Hands highlights portraits of hands, not faces, as another reservoir of personal expression. I choose artists who have accomplished strong bodies of work over a period of decades. To me, hands are a study of the human soul reflected in the mirror of my camera." Rena Small 2023 https://renasmall.com

References

  1. ↑ "Chris McCaw: Sunburn". SFO Museum. 2013. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
  2. ↑ "DIY Camera: Chris McCaw's Large-Format Cameras". PDN Online. February 13, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  3. ↑ Johnson, Ken (December 27, 2012). "Chris McCaw: 'Marking Time'". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Chris Mc Caw". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Grandpa's almond orchard, Manteca, CA". collections.eastman.org. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  6. 1 2 "Cirkut #7 (Galbraith Lake, Alaska, within the Arctic Circle, 31 hours)". chrysler.emuseum.com. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Poly-optic #22 (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Chris McCaw. Time and Tides". Wall Street International. April 5, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Art review: Astonishing photographs track the sun's scorching path". Los Angeles Times. October 22, 2012. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  10. 1 2 "Met Collection Record McCaw, Chris". www.metmuseum.org. Archived from the original on November 7, 2016. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  11. ↑ "The Getty Museum". Getty Museum. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  12. ↑ "Art Collection | CollectionSpace". webapps.cspace.berkeley.edu. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  13. ↑ Columbus museum of art online catalog. https://www.columbusmuseum.org/embark-collection/pages/Obj39940/?sid=137765&x=10055615
  14. ↑ "The Crocker Art Museum announces Brought to Light. Masterworks of Photography from the Crocker Art Museum | Museum Publicity". Museum Publicity. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  15. ↑ "DAC Collection Search - Sunburned GSP#447 (Mojave)". dac-collection.wesleyan.edu. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  16. ↑ "Works | Chris McCaw | People | George Eastman Museum". collections.eastman.org. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  17. ↑ "Photography Collections Database". norman.hrc.utexas.edu. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  18. ↑ "Chris McCaw (American, born 1971) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  19. ↑ "Chris McCaw | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  20. ↑ "Montery Museum of Art - Chris McCaw". montereyart.org. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  21. ↑ "Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, collection records". Archived from the original on August 17, 2021.
  22. ↑ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  23. ↑ "Works – Chris McCaw – Artists/Makers – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art". art.nelson-atkins.org. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  24. ↑ "Artist: Chris McCaw". North Carolina Museum of Art. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  25. ↑ "Sunburned GSP #140 (San Francisco Bay)". philamuseum.org. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  26. ↑ "Sunburned GSP #110 (Mojave)". philamuseum.org. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  27. ↑ "Chris McCaw". www.portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  28. ↑ "Sunburned GSP #141 (San Francisco Bay) (2008-50)". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  29. ↑ "Results – Search Objects – Collections at SBMA | Santa Barbara Museum of Art". collections.sbma.net. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  30. ↑ "Chris McCaw | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  31. ↑ "Collections | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art". jsmacollection.uoregon.edu. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  32. ↑ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Sunburned, GSP #084 (Pacific Ocean) | McCaw, Chris | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  33. ↑ "Chris McCaw | Sunburned GSP#499 (San Francisco Bay)". whitney.org. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.